Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Israel and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Skarface to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Panda Bear. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Young Rascals record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Curtis Mayfield record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Black Flag,
The Dead C,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Brass Construction,
Byron Stingily,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Skatalites,
The Fugs,
Can,
The Evens,
Monolake,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ponytail,
Donald Byrd,
Unwound,
Sex Pistols,
The Dave Clark Five,
Minny Pops,
Ohio Players,
John Foxx,
Leonard Cohen,
Pylon,
Freddie Wadling,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The J.B.'s,
Drive Like Jehu,
The New Christs,
Supertramp,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gang of Four,
Crime,
Wings,
Brand Nubian,
Nation of Ulysses,
John Holt,
Terry Callier,
John Lydon,
Gang Gang Dance,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Heaven 17,
Lower 48,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Grass Roots,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Adolescents,
Sound Behaviour,
Hasil Adkins,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Arcadia,
Beasts of Bourbon,
T.S.O.L.,
Rapeman,
Ornette Coleman,
Babytalk,
Max Romeo,
Jacques Brel,
Half Japanese,
DJ Sneak,
Nas,
LL Cool J,
the Human League, the Human League, the Human League, the Human League.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.